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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

allocate 98% of their funding to startups helmed by men. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. million for her app, placing Squad in the mere 0.34% of companies funded last year with a Black woman founder. The making (and unraveling) of the ‘girlboss’ myth.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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If it Didn’t Happen on Twitter it Didn’t Really Happen. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

I decided to water down some details to protect the innocent. He had just received notice from a major media organization that they were going to run a very negative news story. We were 6 months away from our next fund raising cycle. There were no follow-on articles in the tech press or even other online mass media journals.

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